A George III Cornish mahogany longcase clock, Emanuel Harvey, Launceston, circa 1795, the four pillar eight-day rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch single-sheet silvered brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, rocaille border engraved arched calendar aperture and signed Eman, Harvey, Launceston to the insect inhabited centre within Roman numeral chapter ring incorporating Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll pierced blued steel hands and floral trail engraved spandrels beneath arch decorated with an eagle holding banner inscribed TEMP FUGIT within circular panel flanked by conforming floral sprays, the case with ogee-shaped tand over genero moulded break-arch cornice and hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by free standing columns to hood, the trunk with concave throat moulding over gothic ogee-arch shaped caddy moulded trunk door flanked by fluted canted angles, the plinth base with ogee top mouldings and moulded skirt, 234cm highEmanuel Harvey is recorded in Brown, H. Miles CORNISH CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS as a watch, and clockmaker, and shopkeeper established in Launceston by 1791 and dying in 1818 leaving all items purveying to his trade to his son Edward.